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'Bend Your Bones' by Fraea

Bend Your Bones, the six-song debut EP by Minneapolis’ self-described “shadow pop” duo Fraea, arrived with striking, colorful, and ambiguous artwork. The visuals look like a bunch of billowy, pinkish blobs, like the flowing innards of a lava lamp — but maybe that’s just us. “People could see whatever they wanted to,” Fraea beatmaker Drew Preiner told City Pages of the album cover. “It was up to the listener’s interpretation.” Whatever your interpretation, it works as an eye-catching representation of the music: The EP is heavily electronic, yet the record always feels more fluid than mechanical thanks to the winning combination of Jessie Daley’s floating vocals (reminiscent of Purity Ring’s Megan James) and Preiner’s cascading production.